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Developer tools that are as easy to use and functional as Visual Studio 6.0
I'm curious, what's wrong with kdevelop?
The ability to administer and fix a machine without having 20 years worth of Unix experience.
I don't even have that length of experience, and I can manage just fine.
A sane release schedule (not every 6 months).
That's upto the distribution you choose. Certain distributions like Ubuntu have long-term support versions for 3-5 years.
Complete and seamless ability to integrate with Windows.
Eh? Well.. I can use windows printers and browse fileshares out of the box. But I'm not sure what you mean here.
Reasonable pricing.
In Ubuntu's case the commercial support that's available seems to be quite affordable.
Some kind of liability insurance.
Again, Ubuntu's commercial support has that.
Distributions that work with as much hardware as Windows currently does.
Well, I think in reality it works with more. Since Linux supports a lot more legacy hardware than recent versions of Windows does. I've not had any problems with brand new hardware either, since they use USB/Firewire standards... Soundcards have always worked in my experience and graphic cards pretty much get 2d acceleration out of the box...
If you're looking for a vendor that can provide supported hardware and offers enterprise hardware support for Linux, IBM is generally known as a good choice.
tell me, what the hell is the difference? Where is it? WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?
Microsoft still support XPSP2 and Vista. Now very few security updates reach win2k and support is limited. New applications written by Microsoft don't seem to work on Windows 2000.
I suppose you could get around it by running Wine under Windows 2000... But that doesn't solve the security updates part.
The reality distortion field around him causes a temporal doppler effect with other browsers. For him, Firefox is the most fast.
Open tons os webpages and compare their speeds. Run them for a long time and compare crashes... I can't do it for you
I'd have to say I've not had Firefox 2 crash on me within the last... Uh, month maybe? Last time it crashed was intentional, by visiting a page (that I knew was) specially crafted to make Firefox crash.
I briefly glanced at the V1.0x series of Open Office, tried to convince myself for an hour "I should be using this, it's Open Source!",... and turned away.
OpenOffice.org 2.0.4 is out. I feel it is much better than v1.
Until it obtains such a feature, I have no need to try it.
IMHO The Opera browser is the best browser available and I wish more people knew it existed because the majority of people I know think the only choices available are IE and FF, many of them have never even heard of Opera.
To be honest, I wasn't very impressed with how it didn't support my bank's site (even when changing the browser agent) -- but for some reason they support Konqueror even.
Hardware overlays are NOT provided by 3D hardware, it part of the 2D accelaration. It is no better today on a top end 3D card than it was almost 10 years ago on a good 2D card.
Interesting, but, I can only recall ever getting overlays working when I got 3d acceleration working.
Mainly for faster task switching (I don't really notice any redrawing taking place) and being able to play movie files (hardware overlay support provided by 3d accelerated drivers).
Most of them never had 3D hardware support anyway.
Never owned one that old.
2D acceleration is perfectly fine for good X11 performance.
Perhaps it is for you, but I don't like staring at the screen redrawing.
Drivers - If you need, a decent BSD with X11 go use FreeBSD and craft yourself hardware that works with FreeBSD. It should not be hard to specify a set of fully working hardware with great drivers for FreeBSD. I think you have much more options with PC hardware and FreeBSD (working decently) than with OSX. Or maybe go Linux, not much different from BSD really.
I have never gotten 3d acceleration working in FreeBSD on PPC Macs. I do notice the difference in the desktop speed when I don't have them on X11.
Compare that with a 128mb or 256mb G3 CRT iMac and you've got way more than enough ram and CPU horsepower to run X11 with plenty of useful apps. Christ, I ran X11 on a 486 with 8mb of RAM and a 512kb XVGA card back in 1994 and it worked just fine. (And BTW: NeXTStep on an old cube ran DPS just great in 16mb of RAM too. It's not DPDF that's the hog - it's Aqua).
Riiight. And on this machine (which can't run OS X adequately) yet has outstanding 3D capabilities (a Rage 128 maybe!) you're going to be doing exactly what?
Maybe you don't notice, but I do notice the difference in X when running in a non-accelerated desktop. The switching of applications is slower. I have more troubles playing movies that I could play originally in Mac OS X/Windows.
Nope, In my considered opinion, if a machine is too old to run OS X (so we're clearly talking Macs here, remember?) then linux is probably the best option
Maybe, the guy isn't very clear on what he wants to use it for.
BSDs are also an option, but again, the software support for PPC BSD isn't going to be as good as PPC linux.
Wine/Cedega reports itself to apps as some version of Windows, so no, without some special case trickery they cannot detect that the bans all affected Linux users.
Because looking up Windows registry keys like HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wine etc. Is apparently 'special case trickery' now.
Cedega users were locked out of their accounts for, what, ~5-6 days
20 days.
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Aren't the games consoles actually better for playing games ?
Well, right now the only console I can compare to is the xbox/xbox 360 since that's been the only relatively working and succesfull network gaming console. On another note, the original xbox apparently wasn't far off from a standard x86 PC apparently.
How do they do for stuff like USB and NICs ?
I suppose they work fine, but you seem to of missed points like... I don't want to pay a tax (xbox live) to host servers on my own Internet connection and on my own hardware with the games I already bought.
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If you're looking for a vendor that can provide supported hardware and offers enterprise hardware support for Linux, IBM is generally known as a good choice.
I suppose you could get around it by running Wine under Windows 2000... But that doesn't solve the security updates part.
Powerpoint presentations need more power.
It fails my check 1. Browser synchronization.
Until it obtains such a feature, I have no need to try it.
To be honest, I wasn't very impressed with how it didn't support my bank's site (even when changing the browser agent) -- but for some reason they support Konqueror even.
You forgot to mention there is a lack of browser synchronization too currently.
I suppose they work fine, but you seem to of missed points like...
I don't want to pay a tax (xbox live) to host servers on my own Internet connection and on my own hardware with the games I already bought.
They should teach a man to build laptops.
Then they can compete with big companies with their cheap prices.